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Acknowledgments
About the Editors




Edited by David G. Hartwell




Cover




Copyright




About the Publisher




Introduction



It was an especially good year for fantasy short fiction in 2002, and we wish this book could have been
twice as long so we could have fit in a bunch of longer stories that are just as good as the ones collected
here. It was an exceptional year for childrenтАЩs and young adult fiction, as well. The publishers had geared
up for a year in which there would be no new Harry Potter novel (and to follow up on the huge success
of the film of The Fellowship of the Ring). Everyone knew there is an audience for good
childrenтАЩs/young adult fantasy, and many tried to satisfy it, including a goodly number of successful
writers, from Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman to Isabel Allende and Michael Chabon, as well as less
familiar names such as Nancy Farmer and Cornelia Funke. Readers are going to be catching up on 2002
for some time to come because there was so much that was so good, and in such unusual places.
Perhaps the best anthology of original stories was The Green Man, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling, also a young adult publication.

So welcome to the third volume of the YearтАЩs Best Fantasy, representing the best of 2002. Like the
earlier volumes in this series, this book provides some insight into the fantasy field now, who is writing
some of the best short fiction published as fantasy, and where. But it is fundamentally a collection of
excellent stories for your reading pleasure. We follow one general principle for selection: this book is full
of fantasyтАФevery story in the book is clearly that and not primarily something else. We (Kathryn Cramer
and David G. Hartwell) edit the YearтАЩs Best Science Fiction in paperback from Eos as a companion
volume to this oneтАФlook for it if you enjoy short science fiction, too.